The announced depletion of fossil energy resources is fueling some speculation. It therefore urgent to explore the different renewable sources available Benin. In ocean, in addition swells, there are also orbital marine currents generated by them. An advantageous solution for countries located Gulf Guinea recovery and transformation swell its into electrical energy. Swells adult waves that prop...

for the past quarter of a century iran has advocated the setting up of a security regime in the persian gulf by littoral states that excludes foreign powers. this paper examines the reasons behind iran's opposition to foreign participation in persian gulf security arrangements; the steps iran has taken to gain the support of other littoral states for its scheme, and the prospects for iran&...

flavonoids could serve as potent inhibitors of xanthine oxidase (xo). in the present study, the effects of ruta graveolens l. extract and its major isolated flavonoids, quercetin and rutin, on guinea pig liver xo have been investigated. the inhibitory effects of r. graveolens, quercetin and its glycoside form, rutin, were assayed spectrophotometrically. r. graveolens extract showed moderate inh...

Extensively used by US forces in Vietnam, the 1991 Gulf War, Kosovo and Afghanistan, and by Israel in the 1982 siege of West Beirut, cluster bombs have received severe condemnation from human rights and humanitarian organisations. There is consensus in the international community that these weapons are unacceptable and in breach of international humanitarian law, with many calling for a morator...

The monotypical orphnine genus Stenosternus Karsch is known from a single specimen of Stenosternus costatus collected on the São Tomé island (Gulf of Guinea). The holotype of Stenosternus costatus Karsch is re-examined and its characters are discussed and illustrated. Although the genus was implicitly placed by Paulian (1984) in the Old World tribe Orphnini Erichson, re-examination of the holot...

Currently, only two species are known in the sabellid genus Aracia: A. riwo (Rouse, 1996) and A. heterobranchiata (Nogueira, López & Rossi, 2004). The first was described from the surface of a Teredo-riddled log lying in 1 m of water among mangrove roots, in Papua (New Guinea), whilst the second was found on an organically enriched beach at São Sebastião (Brazil). In this contribution, a third ...

In the eastern Gulf of Guinea (GG), freshwater originated from rivers discharges into ocean and high precipitation rate are key contributors to upper vertical density stratification, play a role in modulating local air-sea interactions as well biogeochemical cycle. Nevertheless, dynamics GG plumes remain poorly documented because scarcity historical, situ observations lack an ad hoc satellite-b...

Question: Do caecilians follow Bergmann’s rule? Hypothesis: Bergmann’s rule explains the wide variation in body sizes found among populations of the terrestrial caecilian Schistometopum thomense. Field site: This is a range-wide study incorporating most terrestrial habitats throughout the island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea. Methods: We performed morphological measurements on 95 museum spe...